Clearing the Future

Over the past decade the biggest environmental disaster hasn’t been a single event more of just the use of CO2 emitters. According to the United states Department of Energy, the emissions over the past year of 2012 we had a decline in CO2 emissions.  They hope that within the next few years the newer hybrids will catch on and help make a bigger dampening mark on the larger scale.

This is huge because this means that the use of hybrids has started to help with what the vehicles are doing or the general use of vehicles has declines. Either way it’s great to see that the US is finally back tracking up on all the damage we had caused to the environment. Even if it’s not a big step forward, it’s better than building up more CO2 emissions than there can be repaired for. With this change of emission there could be a drastic change over the years to come, even if it isn’t much at each time it will build up to a great amount of change after a few years.

Article found in this blog can be found at: "U.S. Energy Information Administration - EIA - Independent Statistics and Analysis." Energy-related Carbon Dioxide Emissions Declined in 2012. U.S. Department of Energy, 5 Apr. 2013. Web. 29 Apr. 2013.

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Strong Little Atom

Hydrogen is another suspected energy source that could come arise in the next decade or so. When hydrogen is used as a fuel like substance it is normally as the form of a liquid. This substance has been used on most of the past space shuttles used by the USA. The system was and electrical engine that use the Hydrogen liquid and through the combustion and use of it would make a pure H2O sample for eth crew aboard. That was the only by byproduct of this engine.

If we could make ourselves such an effect engine for regular everyday use like that for vehicles of civilians, I think most people would be fond of the creation of water molecules, considering the fuel source is derived from the very substance it creates. Considering that in history the Atom bomb was only considered to be a fraction of the H-bomb, or Hydrogen bomb. Hydrogen has been proven to be such a strong energy source because it's only one proton and one electron, the simplest of all elements.

Article found in this blog can be found at: "Hydrogen Energy." RE News RSS. Copyright 1999-2013 RenewableEnergyWorld.com, n.d. Web. 29 Apr. 2013.

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Sunny Drive

Cell phones are an every day’s use these days, almost as common as the car in most people’s lives. Generally the best time to charge your phone is over night. Most people wouldn’t think to do the same with one of their cars, but there are cars out there now that run on solar, switch grass and a battery, which alone can power the vehicle. This article brings up that solar and electric cars are finally striding ahead of the Fossil fuel cars we use now. The cars are naturally a combination of two because the battery alone cannot start a car, although it would be a mix of something that created CO2 and the battery, we would be better off with the emissions made then we are now.

Cars are defiantly the biggest human assisted cause to global warming and CO2 emissions. It’s not odd to think that the next focus of the scientist is to get a car out there that can work better than he modern highbred. These batteries they talk about are crazy at storing energy, and there are 4 combinations that the battery can be used with where it is at maximum put out. Out of all 4 of these the use of fossil fuels isn’t even present. Fossil fuels were a great idea at first. Although like the rest wasn’t never truly weary of the negative outcome of its use; the scientist teams studying these batteries are looking under every like pathways this battery brings.

Article found in this blog can be found at:Contributor, Guest. "CleanTechnica." CleanTechnica. Cleantechnica 2012, 28 Mar. 2013. Web. 29 Apr. 2013.

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Fender Bender?

Nuclear energy is already considered dangerous by society, but the idea of a car that has a mini nuclear reactor inside of it is quite ridiculous. This article has no biased side on it, they only speak of how good or bad this could be. Nuclear energy has almost no pollution other than the nuclear waste, which would only be once every 5-7 years with each vehicle. Then the article talks about how this could be and extremely bad idea, what would happen if the vehicle owner wasn’t properly shielded from the radiation? The person in the vehicle and ever others near it could easily die from the nuclear attack. The other main concern brought up is the common use of radioactive materials in weapons.

Vehicles such as a car are still considered extremely unsafe. And nuclear energy is hard to be sustained in such a small area. Sure it would be crazy awesome if we could remove CO2 emossions in general from all the vehicles that are one the road ways now. The risk of all the bad drivers out there doesn’t over way the risk of how badly our society can be hurt by an accident, let’s say a small little fender bender I feel could be fine after a crash but let’s say there was a T-bone accident, how serious could the wall around the nuclear material rupture? I feel this is a cool idea but with the way roads are now, there no logical reason to make everyone’s care into a handy dandy nuke.

Article found in this blog can be found at: Silverman, Jacob. "Can a Car Run on Nuclear Power?" HowStuffWorks. Howstuffworks, Inc., n.d. Web. 26 Apr. 2013.

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Steam & Salt

Nevada has a new salt based solar thermal power plant. Sure that sounds like an unlikely source of energy, but the article does a nice job explaining how this salt energy works. The salts they use can be stored at high temperature than water, when the salt is stored it is constantly boiling, with little to no evaporation. They then use the already boiling salt and run it through pipes in a water basin that cause the steam to turn the turbine.

Energy source have been focused towards; solar, wind, biomass, fossil fuels and hydro-electric, it is odd to think that research has reach once again for an earth resource. After the use of fossil fuels and the huge amount of people who have started to oppose them. This salt technology blows my mind, to think something as simple and salt can be used to create a huge amount of energy once it has been heated. With these ideas like how long will be until we have another racial new power idea like this.

Article found in this blog can be found at:Casey, Tina. "CleanTechnica." CleanTechnica. Cleantechnica 2012, 4 Apr. 2013. Web. 25 Apr. 2013.

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Radiantly Safe

According to NASA’s scientist Pushker A. Kharecha and James E. Hansen, the emissions from nuclear energy will cause fewer deaths in the long run compared to fossil fuels. They also say that because of nuclear energy, it has prevented 1.84 million air pollution-related deaths and 64 gigatonnes. Nuclear energy is also suspected to be able to prevent the 420,000 to 7.04 million deaths by 2050, if we switch over to it.

Nuclear energy is an extremely scary idea, after thinking about nuclear activity in the past you only hear about how much destruction and death they have caused. History has slandered the face of nuclear energy, nuclear energy is considered safe compared to coal mining and to oil drilling. Nuclear energy is considered the least deadly of all energies. If you think of it, nuclear waste isn’t as deadly for the environment if we can store like we already do, comparatively to the emissions of the fossil fuels they are destroying the earth because of their emissions. Nuclear energy only has the nuclear waste and steam in the end.

Article found in this blog can be found at:Ganzalez, Robert T. "NASA Researchers: Nuclear Power Will Kill Fewer People than Natural Gas." Io9. Gawker Media 2013, 4 Feb. 2013. Web. 25 Apr. 2013.

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Rocking the Boat

Having the natural waves of the ocean of flow of the current can be used to create an energy source. This states that they have used said technology, although before it wasn’t used for energy of human consumption, they were used for the creation of more essential things such as flour for bread. This type of energy creation systems is more common in dams, by doing that they can create an artificial energy source from the new manmade current.

I think it’s amazing that they took the original designs were just the mind turbine and the classic lumberyard wheel that turns when the current pushes it, they were used for other purposes. Over the past 100 years they have applied the turbine/ propeller to the insides of dams, to make them more efficient.  When I first heard that you can create power from a dam, by allowing the flowing currents to run through the propeller to turn the turbine and create energy, it sound a lot like this a reliable energy type that could be applied to almost any major closed off water way and even possible the ocean.

Atricle found in this blog can be found at: "Hydroelectric Energy." - National Geographic Education. National Geographic Society, n.d. Web. 24 Apr. 2013.

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Shining Skies

Projection are always just a pondering state of persons and companies, it is just like the weather they can be right half the time, but they are always super close to where they originally state. They state that the projected outcome of energy by sometime in 2013 to be up near 18000 megawatts hours per day. This amount of energy out does other numbers from past years.

The prospects and futures such as 18000 megawatts hours hour per day is an insane amount of energy. With the progress such as this solar energy looks like it may be the most reliable energy source to live on; it could nearly power a whole town with that much energy.  The only down side to this bright idea is what happens once you reach the limit of said power limit of each day, how do you store it? And how do you fix the problem of cloudy and or sun lacking regions of the world/ USA? Sure solar isn't sound proof yet, but at least they are trying with leaps forward.

Article used in this blog can be found at: Loveless, Matthew. "Energy.gov." Energy.gov. US Government, 12 Sept. 2012. Web. 24 Apr. 2013.

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Green America

The article, “The Greenest Organizations in the US: Who Uses the Most Renewable Energy?” This article shows that the green movement started a few years  back really caught on with some major organizations, including Intel, Microsoft, Wal-Mart and Apple, just to name a few. Then the article went on to explain that these companies use the most renewable energy out of any other American companies.

I find really interesting that America has been the main use of the non-renewable sources of energy such as coal and fossil fuels, but this article shows that America has turned its check to the situation.  When I think of America, I normal think of it being a small on the idea of moving the energy situation and not changing the almost set in stone ways of modern society, although like most of our modern life I have grown accustom to such changes and I think some changes are defiantly need for our government and social life.

Article used in this blog can be found at: Montgomery, James. "The Greenest Organizations in the US: Who Uses the Most Renewable Energy?" RE News RSS. RenewableEnergyWorld.com, 18 Apr. 2013. Web. 24 Apr. 2013
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